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Free Press, London, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. acknowledgements, preface by author, two appendices, notes, selected bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations, colour illustrations and drawings, contemporaneous with Descartes life. Black coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing to the book corners and age toning of the text block edges. Illustrated dustwrapper, of Descartes, with gilt and red background with white and gilt titles to the front panel and white titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Sepia toned photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. The biography of the 17th-century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, traveller, soldier and spy -- Rene Descartes. "Before his death in 1650 he had made immense contributions to an exceptionally wide range of fields and disciplines, with 'Cogito, ergo sum'…
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Descartes: A Life of Rene Descartes and Its Place in His Times
by Grayling, A. C
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Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy
by Smith, D. Nichol (editor)
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Blackie and Son Ltd, Glasgow, 1900. Reissued, 1st thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. introduction, preface and notes by editor, letter to Charles Earl of Dorset, "To The Reader", 2 appendices and index. Light green coloured boards with black illustration on the front panel along with decoration and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. This book is about the English Theatre prepared to the French Theatre after the Restoration of the monarchy in England in the early 1600s. For a Dryden himself says in his "To The Reader" -- "the drift of the ensuring discourse was chiefly to vindicate the one of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly preferred the French before them.". Bumping of the corners of the book and shelf wear evident to the top and bottom book edges. Sun has caused darkening of the spine and to just either side of the spine. Cloth is rubbed, faded and mark and there is bumping to…
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
by Schama, Simon
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Fontana Press, London, 1988. Reprint. Softcover. Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. preface and introduction by author, notes, a bibliographic guide to the history of Dutch "Mentalite", list of illustrations and index. The text is illustrated with copious black-and-white reproductions art work and the occasional black-and-white photograph. Colour illustrated cover with white coloured titles to the front panel and blue and black coloured titles to the backstrip. " In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the conventions of social or cultural history, Simon Schama investigates the astonishing case of a people's self-invention: how, in the seventeenth-century, a modest assortment of farming, fishing and shipping communities, without a shared language, religion or government, transformed themselves into a formidable world empire -- the Dutch Republic." -- From the rear panel blurb. Creasing of the book corners and the front edge has started to curl.…
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Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq: Lieutenant General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, One of the Council of State, and a Member of the Parliament which began on November 3, 1640. ( Vol II Only )
by Ludlow, Edmund
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W. Mears and F. Clay, Without Templebar, 1722. Stated Second Edition. Leather. Reading Copy/No Dust Jacket. 500 g; XVI, VIII, 430 pages, front end page present but detached, weatherboards blind stamped, spine shows six compartments, severe rubbing, and top right-hand corner of the front panel and at the top edges of the back strip. Front hinge weak. The book needs rebinding. Extensively foxed throughout. . Continuation of title -- "to which is prefix'd some account of his life and writings, collected from the Earl of Clarendon, Bishop Kennett, and Mr Archdeacon Echard's hiftories. With an account of his conduct during his banifhment in Switzerland, and a copy of the infcription upon his monument. From Mr Addison." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; 17th Century; Inventory No: 0217856. .
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Milton's Prose
by Milton, John (Malka W. Wallace -- Editor )
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Oxford University Press, London, 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Good. (4) V-XXIX (1) 476 pages, introduction by editor, note on text. Navy blue coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed publisher's logo to the front book panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and some rubbing to the backstrip and to the book corners. Shelf wear to the lower book edges. Dust marks and foxing to the top text block edge and light age toning of the other text block edges and internal text. A few foxing spots to the endpapers and previous owners name to the top edge of the free front end paper. A previous owner has underlined some of the text in blue coloured ink. Plain text dustwrapper with blue coloured background with white titles to the front panel and black titles to the backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Fading to the backstrip and clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. A selection of the…
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Puritan, Rake and Squire
by Lane, Jane
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Evans Brothers Limited, London, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 380 g.; VI, 7-190 pages, list of illustrations, and bibliography. The text is illustrated with three reproductions of contemporary illustrations of the men described. Green coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Rubbing and discolouration to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. Browning and foxing to the text block edges and a few marks to the book panels. Browning and light foxing to the endpapers and to the internal text. The List of Illustrations has placed the incorrect page for the placement of the illustrations within the text; ie., the portrait of Praise-God Barebone is listed as facing page 7, where in actual fact it is placed between pages 16 and 17. The other two illustrations are likewise incorrectly numbered, but are present within the text. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing the three men portraits on the front panel with a dark red background and white and black titles…
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Velasquez le Seigneur "les demi-dieux" Une Biographie et 124 reproductions
by Fargue, Leon Paul
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Dimanche, Paris, 1946. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Text, in French. 900 g., not paginated. The text is illustrated with 47 reproductions, in black and white, of Velasquez's paintings. There are also many other photographs which show in greater detail some of the works of Velasquez. Cream coloured textured card covers with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the book corners and to the book edges. Handling marks are present to the book panels and a few foxing spots are also present. Age toning to the internal pages with the occasional foxing spot. Some browning of the extreme edges of the book. Original cellophane wrapper, now protected, the best that can be said is that the majority is still present. A book on the 17th century painter Velasquez. Size: Folio (over 12" tall ). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Spain; 17th Century;…
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